Programme Three in the British Animation Awards contains a selection of animated shorts, music videos and TV commercials. Cast your vote after the programme to help select this year’s winners.
Spin Spun Span
Dirs Emily Howells, Anne Wilkins/GB 2011/5 mins
A surreal journey through the history of the cotton factories of the North West led by a choir of singing spindles and a spinning mule. Commissioned by Bolton Museum and Archives.
Moxie
Dir Stephen Irwin/GB 2011/6 mins
A pyromaniac bear misses his mother.
Thursday
Dir Matthias Hoegg/GB 2011/7 mins
Royal College of Art
An everyday love story set in the not so distant future sees blackbirds battling with technology, automatic palm readers and power cuts.
Get Well Soon: Impaled Leg
Dir Pheobe Boswell/GB 2011/4 mins
Drinking games at Edinburgh College of Art and a misguided shortcut.
The Henhouse
Dir Elena Pomares/GB 2011/7 mins
National Film and Television School
A hungry fox finds shelter from the rain and the city at the Hen house cafe.
You May Now
Dirs Daniel Keeble, Dane Winn/GB 2011/2 mins
University of the West of England
A sack character exists in a simple 2D world and once he puts on a pair of 3D glasses he is transported into an amazing 3D world.
Liz Green: Displacement
Dir Kate Anderson/GB 2011/4 mins
Lukid: Stripes
Dirs David Gilbert, Maxim Lucas/GB 2011/4 mins
A disgruntled eel has his TV destroyed by some marauding magpies….
Get Well Soon: Bob
Dir Darren Walsh/GB 2011/2 mins
I’m Fine Thanks
Dir Eamonn O’Neill/GB 2011/5 mins
Royal College of Art
Are you ok?
Architeq: Into the Cosmos
Dir Darren Robbie/GB 2011/3 mins
What happens to all the old vinyl people used to play? Forgotten records are summoned to an old warehouse by a mysterious ‘collector’.
Dry Riser: Tangerine
Dir Thomas Hicks/GB 2011/4 mins
Nokia: Gulp
Dirs Sumo Science/GB 2011/2 mins
The life of a little fishing boat when the tide goes out. As the sea ebbs away oilskins and nets come to life manifesting a lone fisherman, out to find the catch of the day.
Statoil: Goodnight
Dir David Prosser/GB 2011/1 min
A girl’s fantasy adventures, as her father tells her a bedtme story.
Pilsner Urquell Legends: The Day Pilsner Struck Gold
Dir Chris Randall/GB 2011/1 min
‘The City of Pilsen hides a unique and precious secret…’ An abstracted retelling of how Pilsner Urquell was created.
All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat)
Dir Louis Hudson/GB 2011/9 mins
A man living inside a cat gets into a sticky love triangle.
Ernesto
Dir Corinne Ladiende/GB 2011/7 mins
National Film and Television School
Seven year old Ernesto feels left out when he realises he’s the only kid in school with a full set of milk teeth. When his efforts to fit in fail miserably, Ernesto resorts to drastic measures to get rid of them, but his teeth have other plans…
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